2010 Cambridge Merit Bank heist

The 2010 Cambridge Merit Bank heist occurred in 2010 when a four-man heist crew robbed the Cambridge Merit Bank in Boston, Massachusetts. The crew, consisting of robbers Doug MacRay, Jem Coughlin, Albert MacGloan, and Desmond Elden, planned to rob a Cummins armored car (manned by driver Arthur Shea and courier Marty McGuire) as it delivered money to the bank, and they succeeded in ambushing McGuire and stealing his money bags. They then proceeded to force the people in the bank onto the ground, and they had manager Claire Keesey open the vault; Coughlin beat down assistant manager David Bearns after a silent alarm went off. The robbers succeeded in stealing the money in the vault, microwaving the security footage, bleaching the area, and fleeing in a Brighton Electric city work van with Keesey as a hostage. They set Keesey free near the waterfront and told her to walk until she felt water, while the robbers escaped to their quarry hideout. They torched the van on a street in Charlestown, making off clean.